[foss4g2014] December 2nd Press release party ( was: Press releases party and brainstorming)

Wed Nov 27 09:43:24 PST 2013

I can't make it until after I get out of class, but I will swing by around
7 on my way home!

we have a planning meeting the next night, right?

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Darrell Fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org>wrote:

> That's sounds great.
>
> I have a GoPro we can use for all the activity shots...
>
> d.
>
>
> On Nov 25, 2013, at 20:58, Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:
>
> > Glad to spark some ideas :)
> >
> > Let's get together and further these ideas.
> >
> > Where: Lucky Lab Hawthorne
> > (http://luckylab.com/locations/hawthorne-lucky-labrador-brew-pub/)
> > When: December 2nd, 5:30pm
> > What: Fun and some work, rough agenda below
> >
> > Rough Agenda:
> > - Keep brainstorming and refining ideas
> > - Write press releases
> > - Identify and contact potential media outlet
> > - Decide on video details (i.e. who has a camera, who can film,
> > format, video editing ideas, etc)
> > - Sign up for videos (world's smallest park, bridges, bikes, rivers,
> > boats, going to work, etc).  At least, film all PDX-OSGeo'ers who
> > regularly bike to work or around PDX.
> > - Add more here...
> >
> > See you there!
> >
> > Eli
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:56 PM, David Fawcett <david.fawcett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Great ideas.  I can work with Bitner on the Minneapolis connections.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Wm Leler <wmleler at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> These are awesome ideas.  I love it.  --wm
> >>>
> >>> On 22 Nov 2013, at 11:49 AM, Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi All,
> >>>>
> >>>> We have so much theme material [1]!  With all this theme material, I'd
> >>>> like to start rolling it into promotional material and making a list
> >>>> of where to use this promotional material.
> >>>>
> >>>> Brainstorming and working in an evening social session to make
> >>>> promotional material could be fun.  We'll need to write some press
> >>>> releases soon.  Who wants to join me?
> >>>>
> >>>> We have a great video targeted towards an international audience,
> >>>> which explains Oregon geographically in reference to California.  This
> >>>> could become the basis for numerous additional spoof videos ("...For
> >>>> you Europeans, Oregon is the state just north of California. For those
> >>>> of you in Seattle, Oregon is the state that buffers you from
> >>>> California. ...For Californians, Oregon is your hat that keeps the
> >>>> rain off (image of map of CA and OR distorted into rainhat and rain
> >>>> being shed). ...For those of you in Portland, Oregon is the 99%+ rest
> >>>> of the state that you don't notice. ...For those of you in Minneapolis
> >>>> or Halifax, we are at almost the same latitude, but we wake up later
> >>>> (sleep in longer). ...For Australians, Oregon is your second closest
> >>>> neighbor (hey isn't everything other than NZ 'far'?) more geo jokes
> >>>> here (Funny but very simplistic images attached).
> >>>>
> >>>> Looking at the excellent publicly documented and logically laid out
> >>>> 2009 example recipebook/example could be a good starting point for us
> >>>> [2] [3].  There is also the not quite as complete FOSS4G Handbook [4]
> >>>> and in the last few days, Nottingham has gone on a kick filling in
> >>>> information [5] [6].
> >>>>
> >>>> Here are a few cracks at promotional material based on some of the
> >>>> theme material.
> >>>>
> >>>> Before the days of PostGIS, geometric buffer was done by releasing
> >>>> 'buffer birds' carrying rocks in a radial pattern. After a specific
> >>>> amount of time, the birds would drop their rocks marking the buffered
> >>>> feature. The number of birds released was proportional to the distance
> >>>> of the buffer and there was always some debate as to the best color of
> >>>> rock to use for the buffer. These finer points have now been master by
> >>>> Portland's artisan geometric craftspeople who still practice this art.
> >>>> Come to PDX to sample our craft beer, ride our handmade bikes, carry
> >>>> your laptop in our handmade bike bags, and yes, use our buffer birds.
> >>>> Or just come to FOSS4G 2014 to learn about buffer done by PostGIS (or
> >>>> OGR with sqlite dialect, or GeoTools, or JTS/GEOS, or GeoServer, or
> >>>> MapServer, or....lots more buffer software to feature here).
> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPKe9OfWs-M
> >>>>
> >>>> Riding to PDX(/FOSS4G). - A theme of pictures or short videos of the
> >>>> many PDX-OSGeo'ers who ride their bike to work. Preferably wearing an
> >>>> OSGeo shirt, crossing an iconic bridge, incrementing the bike counter,
> >>>> etc. We can then also get into some geometric musing on this, which
> >>>> direction do/will people ride? We can then try to make this a theme in
> >>>> other cities too, get videos of David Bitner riding his bike to work
> >>>> in the snow in MN, "David Bitner is riding to PDX (270.5 degrees)"
> >>>> "Aaron Racicot is unicycling to PDX while on a ferry crossing the
> >>>> Puget Sound (181 degrees) [Aaron, if you come up with video like this
> >>>> in an OSGeo shirt, we'll seriously owe you]"  Ride to us, see you in
> >>>> PDX September 8-13th.
> >>>>
> >>>> Listen to this gem from David Bitner, "One of the favorite stupid
> >>>> sayings in the bike community here 'Portland is just a bike lane in
> >>>> Minneapolis' Portland Avenue was one of the first on street commuter
> >>>> oriented bike lanes when Minneapolis started getting serious about
> >>>> bikes."  If we have "riding to FOSS4G/PDX" promotional material, we
> >>>> can definitely play on this.
> >>>>
> >>>> "Riding to FOSS4G/PDX" can lead to other transportation fun.  Wearing
> >>>> OSGeo t-shirt while paddling kayak in Willamette, whole rowing team in
> >>>> OSGeo shirts, on Trimet, on the aerial tram, walking, ... cross
> >>>> country skiing .... motorcycle... skateboard... waterskiing...
> >>>>
> >>>> Please wait until we formally release these as promotional material
> >>>> before spreading them everywhere (i.e. the time for extensive
> >>>> tweeting, blogging, Press Releases, etc will come once we have
> >>>> something more than funny ideas kicking around).
> >>>>
> >>>> What are your ideas?  How can these be improved?  What are good venues
> >>>> for using the promotional material?  When/where do people want to work
> >>>> on this material?  Who wants to put on an OSGeo shirt and shoot a
> >>>> video of them riding in some iconic PDX location or manner?  Who wants
> >>>> to help shoot those videos?
> >>>>
> >>>> Eli
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> [1]
> >>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/foss4g2014/2013-November/000146.html
> >>>> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_1
> >>>> [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:FOSS4G2009
> >>>> [4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook
> >>>> [5] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2013_Cookbook
> >>>> [6] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2013_Reflections_by_the_LOC
> >>>>
> >>>>
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